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The night sky over Austin

Every sky on this page is computed for Austin's own coordinates — the stars genuinely above the horizon, how high each one stands, and the moon's real phase and position. Not a stock star field with a place name printed on it.

Tonight over Austin

Moon

Last quarter

55% illuminated

Moonrise / moonset

9:52 PM – 11:48 AM

Up around 21:00 local

  • M45 — Pleiades18° up
  • M31 — Andromeda59° up
  • M24 — Milky Way patch15° up
  • M2517° up

Computed for October 2, 2026. Local time is estimated from Austin's longitude rather than a timezone database — accurate to within about an hour almost everywhere.

Print-ready PDF, free, drawn for these exact coordinates. We'll email it to you.

We send the poster either way — the box above is only for the occasional note, and never anything else.

The sky from 30° north

From Austin the north celestial pole, marked by Polaris, stands 30° above the horizon. Over a year 93% of the celestial sphere clears that horizon; the rest never does, at any hour or season.

Never sets
Ursa Minor circles the pole all night, every night of the year.
Never rises
Musca, Volans, Chamaeleon, Hydrus, Apus, Mensa, and 2 more stay below Austin's horizon permanently.

Geometric horizon, at 30.27°, -97.74°. A figure counts as circumpolar only when all of it clears the pole distance, and hills, haze and city light will all take more of the sky than this arithmetic does.

Cities that share this sky

Circumpolar stars are fixed by latitude alone, so these see the same constellations never set as Austin does — however far away they are.

Near Austin

Close enough that the sky overhead is near enough identical on any given night.

Nights worth naming

Each one opens the free generator with Austin and that date already set — change either, or keep it and save the picture.

Looking for a different night — a birthday, an anniversary, the day you met? The free generator takes any date and any place, not just the ones listed here. For the moon on its own, which looked the same from everywhere on Earth that night, start from the moon phase calendar.